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What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-changers (平装)
by Richard N. Bolles
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Career development, Career guide |
| Market price: ¥ 208.00
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¥ 178.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A time tested classic in its own right, Parachute is simply a job-hunter's Bible. |
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Fortune magazine (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides. |
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David Murphy (San Francisco Chronicle) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the job-hunting classic for decades, and is updated by …Bolles each year. It's terrific for college students, people who need the basics of job-hunting and those who are contemplating whether to change careers. Bolles always goes beyond the routine, including things like useful Internet sites and how to select a career counselor. It's virtually the best-selling career book, and with good reason. |
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Jacqueline Blais (USA Today) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Parachute still soars with practical advice. This book is a steady seller, always making the USA Today annual list of top-selling books. No wonder: is practical and trustworthy. |
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Nurse Week (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
What Color Is Your Parachute? is a classic. Beloved for helping people define their (work) mission in life. |
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Michael Landes (The Back Door Guide to Short-term Job Adventures) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
After reading from cover to cover (and working through a dozen of Richard Bolles’s flower exercise) I realized that it should be required reading for anyone who wants to successfully carve out their own career niche. Revised and updated annually, Parachute…is about taking chances, gaining confidence, and making changes in your career and life. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
For anybody who is job hunting, make this book your best friend. It is one of the best resource tools under the sun. It is the ideal companion to Martin John Yate's books about interviews and resume/job strategies.
Richard Bolles is a genius. Every year he provides job seekers with updated versions of this book, replete with web sites and other sources. He makes trechant, relevant observations that will prove invaluable to the job seeker.
This book has proven invaluable to me; I have used it and referred to it many times and certainly whenever I've interviewed for jobs. Bolles is a master at encouraging readers to see how to put one's interests and talents to work; in short, apply them to jobs.
I like the way Bolles helps people account for their time and demonstrates how time can be spent wisely. His philosophy is simple, direct and practical - one is either job hunting or they are not. It's as simple as that.
Each time I buy the paperback because a) it is cost effective and b) it is more portable than the hardcover. I find that if you keep a copy in your briefcase while job hunting, you can refresh yourself on salient points that will help you get the job. |
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Patrick Goonan (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
While I don't think "What Color is Your Parachute" is a perfect book, it is certainly an excellent starting point for anyone embarking on a career path. As a professional coach, I find that is particularly well-suited to young people starting out and older people making career transitions.
The major strength of the book is that it provides a systematic roadmap from confusion through finding a job that is well matched to both your talents, passions and the needs of the market place. Many career coaching approaches neglect focusing on introspection and finding out what skills you most enjoy using and instead focus on what you are good at, but don't necessarily enjoy. Mr. Bolles does a good job of balancing all of these areas.
I also like that this book gets into matching more than just skills to a career choice. It looks a geographical preference, working environment preferences and categories of skills such as working with people, information and things. Knowing what ratio of these basic categories of tasks is best for you is a simple, but valuable insight. So are the intangible aspects that come along with a particular kind of work.
Another thing that Mr. Bolles does that I appreciate and find a lot of value in is looking at peak experiences inside and outside of work and mining them for both skills and values. I think this is an important key to finding the right work and a way to override negative scripts that often drive our behaviors unconsciously. This is also important information for finding the right key words to put in the resume for good emotional punch.
This book also makes the realities of the job market very clear. Whether people like it or not, networking, research on companies and being prepared is important. So are having a good marketing plan, concrete goals and time commitments around the various job related tasks. We spend a lot of our time at work, so to me this makes perfect sense and avoids a lot of unnecessary pain further down the road.
I tend to think of a job as something that pays the bills, but doesn't necessarily lead to fulfillment in and of itself. This book is more about career building i.e. finding work that has meaning to you and providing a path where you can evolve and grow. If you are only looking for a job, this might be more than what you want to take on. However, if you are looking for happiness in the work you do, this is an excellent starting point to get some momentum that will take you in the direction of your dreams. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
An amazing book that provided me with motivation to do things in a different way, particularly when my options were limited and when I was in a state of confusion. It provided me with a lot of insight to start afresh in a new direction, with confidence and hope. I am now my own master with an organization that I have established, which hopefully will provide sufficient income to lead a comfortable life. My thanks go to a very close friend who recommended me to read this book, at a time when I was more or less depressed. |
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Nick McCormick (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
What Color is Your Parachute is a classic, and it's actually so much more than a job-hunting book. Richard starts at the beginning, guiding the reader through exercises to help discover a job/career preference. Then, step by step, he shows how to land a job in that field. Even if you don't find your "true calling" after completing the career exercises, you will benefit from the practical advice and helpful job-finding tips. You'll also reference the book frequently. |
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